Rochester and Strood was polluted by sewage 306 times in 2023
lasting 1,118 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Rochester and Strood in 2023

19 Sites polluted by Southern Water

306 sewage dumps
1,118 h duration

That's 1.55 months. 5.9 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Rochester and Strood

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Rochester and Strood in 2023. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Reporting refers to how much of the time the monitoring was active. In this constituency 2 of the total 26 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 2 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Southern Water	Tidal Estaury Of River Medway	CORPORATION ST ROCHESTER NO 2 CSO	26	461	76.2
Southern Water	River Medway Estuary	HOO WWPS	20	145	98.6
Southern Water	Tidal River Medway	BRYANT ROAD STROOD	23	139	99.8
Southern Water	River Medway Estuary	CHATHAM HILL OUTSIDE 425 CSO	44	80	44
Southern Water	Whitewall Creek	WHITEWALL CREEK WWTW	6	76	99.9
Southern Water	River Medway Estuary	CLOVER STREET CHATHAM CSO	66	66	78.6
Southern Water	Tidal Estuary Of River Medway	NORTHGATE ROCHESTER CSO	34	50	97.5
Southern Water	River Medway Estuary	BRAMBLETREE CRESCENT BORSTAL CEO	13	25	100
Southern Water	Medway Estuary	GRAIN WWTW	17	16	99.9
Southern Water	River Medway Estuary	FURRELLS ROAD, ROCHESTER CSO	21	14	100
Southern Water	Medway Estuary	FRINDSBURY ROAD STROOD CSO	4	14	52.2
Southern Water	River Medway	DOCK ROAD GILLINGHAM CSO	10	10	47.1
Southern Water	River Medway Estuary	VICARAGE ROAD STROOD WPS	7	9	99.9
Southern Water	River Medway	CSO AT GODDINGTON ROAD STROOD	6	3	47.9
Southern Water	Tidal River Medway	CUXTON COMBINED EMERGENCY OVERFLOW	1	2	100
Southern Water	Medway Estuary	CHARLES STREET STROOD CSO	2	0	93.8
Southern Water	Saline Estuary	NEW BROOK PUMPING STATION	4	0	100
Southern Water	River Medway Estuary	HIGH STREET ROCHESTER CSO	1	0	17.9
Southern Water	River Medway	CASTLE HILL ROCHESTER CSO	1	0	58.3
Southern Water	Tidal River Medway	MARSH ROAD, HALLING COMBINED EO	0	0	99.8
Southern Water	River Medway Estuary	GROVE ROAD STROOD CSO	0	0	76.3
Southern Water	River Medway	CONCORD AVENUE CHATHAM CSO	0	0	0
Southern Water	River Medway	ROCHESTER AVENUE ROCHESTER CSO	0	0	0
Southern Water	River Medway Estuary	CORPORATION STREET ROCHESTER CEO	0	0	50.4
Southern Water	River Medway	NORTH HALLING WWPS	0	0	100
Southern Water	Cliffe Creek	MARSH LANE CLIFFE CEO	0	0	100

Data Sources & Accuracy

EDM (Event Duration Monitoring) data and Consented Discharges to Controlled Waters with Conditions from Environment Agency & Data Map Wales, and Scottish Water

Experimental derived data from Thames Water API, Some data may be missing or inaccurate. This uses Environment Agency rainfall data from the real-time data API (Beta) - Rainfall data is delayed by up to two days.

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